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Article: National Reconnaissance Office -- Moving Toward the Learning Organization.(intelligence services development)
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- Program Manager
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Transition Gradual But Deliberate
For over 30 years, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has acquired and operated the world's most advanced space-based intelligence capabilities. A covert, classified operation for most of those 30 years, NRO provided this service to the national and military leaders of the United States under the tightest security. In 1992 that veil of security was lifted to enhance NRO's ability to provide space-based intelligence to a larger set of customers.
With the "fact of' NRO's existence now declassified, we have one of the first opportunities to see into the NRO and discover, in part, how they plan to continue providing ...